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On Thursday 18th February, the Real Food Festival launched at Borough Market and now you can sample the delights of the festival at the London Market all year round…

The event was a huge half-term success with children and adults alike enjoying the tasty food and drink from local producers and petting Petal the water buffalo! Press enjoyed brunch and cookery demonstrations by outstanding chefs Cyrus Todiwala, Jun Tanaka and Oliver Rowe. Click here for a video from the launch.

The Real Food Festival will be a new regular weekly fixture at Borough Market, providing a tantalising taste of the main event. For the first time in the Market’s 250 year history it has joined forces with an annual food festival, bringing fantastic new producers to London’s most popular and iconic food market. Every Thursday, 14 Real Food Festival producers will come to London bringing Borough Market’s shoppers and the local community even more choice and the opportunity to buy great quality, fresh produce and ingredients at affordable prices, direct from the producer.

For more information on the Real Food Festival, please contact Charlotte or Nilam.

See below for a picture of the COMPLETE team at the Real Food Festival launch at Borough Market.

Last night saw the press launch of family-friendly food and music festival Harvest at Jimmy’s.

Press flocked to Wahaca in Covent Garden - the Mexican street food restaurant owned by MasterChef winner Thomasina Miers - to hear the chef line up revealed. New indie kids Vadoinmessico played a set at the event and will be appearing live at the festival (the full band line up will be announced on the COMPLETE blog within the upcoming weeks).

Jimmy Doherty, chef and pig farmer, is hosting the festival on 11th & 12th September which will see Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage Canteen and The Hairy Bikers feed fellow festival-goers.

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Alternatively, contact Charlotte or Anna.

The Forge restaurant and Browns Bar and Brasserie, both in Covent Garden, have been recommended by the London Evening Standard’s resident Foodie Charles Campion as the best Pre/Post Theatre eateries.

“The Forge is a large and relaxed restaurant with a grounded and comprehensive menu” - Charles on The Forge

“A genuine brasserie with a popular bar” - Charles on Browns Bar and Brasserie

For more information on The Forge, please contact Nilam Jadav

For more information on Browns Bar and Brasserie, please contact Alice Grier

All Bar One have been listed as ‘the’ place to drink this Valentine’s Day. The wine bars have been given this high accolade by food and drink writer Chloe Scott in the nationally distributed newspaper METRO. The piece includes All Bar One’s £19.95 Champagne offer.

For more information on All Bar One, please contact Nilam Jadav or Anna King.

Borough Market, one of London’s oldest and most prestigious food markets, sees the introduction of Asian Chef Angela Malik from 21st January 2010. Angela has succeeded in entering the Borough Market with her delicious selection of sauces, mixes and chutneys, a testament to her abundant skill and the high quality of her produce.

Angela’s innovative approach to cooking has taken London by storm with the introduction of her Acton based cookery school. She shows her students how to expand their culinary skills and try the unexplored: demystifying Thai food, and mastering Dim Sum. Angela, having studied at the Leith’s School of Cookery, has a high level of experience enabling her to share and teach her knowledge to a high standard. She has a passion for cooking and believes it shouldn’t be complicated. Her concept is based on an amalgamation of Eastern flavours and British food, making it exciting and innovative. Her decision to bottle her idea and sell it has proved a great success, showing that you don’t have to be an experienced chef to enjoy fantastic flavours.

If you would like to find out more about Angela and her food philosophy, check out Angela’s classes. They are all about having fun and learning new things. They are fully interactive, ensuring participants can go home and experiment again and again, and at the end of the day you can relax with a glass of wine and eat the delicious food you have just made.

For further details on the classes or for her products please visit www.angelamalik.co.uk.

The Place at the Beach, the ultimate weekend getaway destination, received honourable mention in The Saturday Times’ run down of “Great British Weekends”.

The hotel and restaurant were noted as having “smart rooms, private cottages and a bright brasserie”

For more information, please contact Sarah Lewis or Anna King.

Discovery cruise specialist Swan Hellenic joined forces once again with satirical British magazine The Oldie to sponsor the publications 2010 of the Year Awards, held at lunch at Simpson’s–in–the-Strand.

Joanna Lumley was awarded the prestigious ‘2010 Oldie of the Year Award’ in association with Swan Hellenic. The awards were presented by Sir Terry Wogan and Richard Ingrams. Having presented the Oldie Awards for 10 years, Sir Terry Wogan won his own Oldie Award this year, Swan Hellenic Retirer of the Year

Winners in the other categories of this year’s 2010 Oldie of the Year Awards were:

Chris Mullin – The Oldie Backbencher of the Year

Quentin Blake – The Oldie Illustrator of the Year

P.D. James – The Oldie Handbagger of the Year

Lady Caroline Cranbrook – The Oldie Campaigner of the Year

Colin Stone, MD of Swan Hellenic, comments “Our association with the Oldie of the Year Awards enables us to meet with some interesting guest speakers providing our passengers with some of the most prestigious names in broadcasting, writing and entertainment…We look forward to welcoming both Joanna & Terry onboard Minerva in the near future”

For more information on Swan Hellenic, please contact Missy.

Irish Chef Richard Corrigan appeared on the BBC’s popular weekend programme, Saturday Kitchen, to the delight of both presenters and guests!

Richard Corrigan cooked a Salad of Suckling Pig and Oysters wowing Survivors star Max Beesley with his culinary talent.

You can watch him in action by clicking here.

For more information on Richard and his restaurants Bentley’s and Corrigan’s, please contact Sarah Lewis or Nilam Jadav.

COMPLETE were deighted to see the Independent on Sunday’s New Review with innovative Asian chef Angela Malik. The Indy’s resident foodie, Toby Young, wrote the incredibly flattering article on Angela’s cooking skills as she catered for a private party of his. The piece includes an image of Angela at work and details of her cookery courses.

For further information, please contact Sarah Lewis or Nilam Jadav.

Congratulations to Clerkenwell’s Coach and Horses for winning “Best Wine Pub” at the Harpers Drinking Out Excellence Awards 2010.

When Colette Webster and husband Giles bought the Coach and Horses in 2003 they were looking to host a good honest boozer with great food and a challenging and interesting wine list. 7 years later and they have won Harpers Wine and Spirits award for the Best Wine Pub at the Drinking Out Excellence Awards 2010.

Host Nigel Barden said “the Coach and Horses have won because the list is small, but perfectly formed, being full of reasonably priced and exciting gems from around the world. Collette Webster should feel justifiably proud of herself for putting together such a list.”

A complete novice to the world of wine Colette embraced her passion when the couple re-opened the Coach and Horses. Learning from books, tastings and industry shows and events, Collette has developed and created the award winning list.

Colette comments “we are delighted and pleased in particular for all our loyal wine drinking customers!”

The Coach and Horses were up against the Yew Tree in Gloucestershire and General Tarleton in North Yorkshire at the award ceremony hosted at the Soho House Hotel, London this week.

Contact Sarah Lewis or Nilam Jadav for more information on the Coach and Horses.